G.R. No. 269362 -

Ruling

WHEREFORE , premises considered, we hereby GRANT the present petition for review on certiorari and REVERSE and SET ASIDE the [R]esolutions[,] dated May 4, 2012, and July 12, 2012, of the Court of Appeals, Cagayan de Oro City, in CA-G.R. SP No. 04425-MIN. The CA is ordered to admit the Compliance[,] dated June 7, 2012, filed by the petitioners, reinstate the petitioners' Petition for Review, and to decide with dispatch the present case on its merits. SO ORDERED . (Emphasis in the original) The Court held that considering the circumstances of the case and the substantive issues brought forth by the petitioners, the application of the rules of procedure should be applied liberally as rules of procedure are not ends in themselves, but instruments crafted to serve the cause of justice. [44] Hence, the case was remanded to the CA for the reinstatement of the petitioner's Petition for Review. [45] Resumption of proceedings in CA-G.R. SP No. 04425-MIN Upon reinstatement of the petitioner's Petition in CA-G.R. SP No. 04425-MIN, and after due proceedings, the CA rendered a Decision, dated March 23, 2018, granting the petitioners' appeal and remanding the case to the DARAB. [46] The CA held that the DARAB Central Office erred when it dismissed the petitioners' Urgent Motion for lack of jurisdiction. [47] Moreover, the CA disagreed with the DARAB's finding that the petitioners' motion was, in effect, a petition for certiorari under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court over which the DARAB has no jurisdiction as the DARAB should have simply treated the same as an appeal. [48] A motion for reconsideration was filed by Gacula, but it was denied by the CA. Eventually, the case was remanded to the DARAB. The Ruling of the DARAB On February 28, 2020, the DARAB rendered a Decision granting the petitioners' appeal from the November 27, 2003 Order of Adjudicator Salcedo, the dispositive portion of which reads: WHEREFORE , the Appeal is GRANTED . The Order[,] dated 27 November 2003 issued by RARAD Abeto A. Salcedo, Jr. is hereby REVERSED and SET ASIDE . A NEW ONE is entered as follows: 1. QUASHING the writ of execution issued [on] [December 1,] 2003. 2. DECLARING PE CLOA No. 054876 and TCT No. T-184 as valid and still subsisting. 3. DIRECTING the Register of Deeds for Cagayan de Oro to refrain from cancelling PE CLOA No. 0054876 and TCT No. T-184 issued in favor petitioner-appellants. 4. ORDERING the DARAB Sheriff to cease and desist for enforcing the writ of execution issued on [December 1,] 2003. No costs. SO ORDERED . [49] (Emphasis in the original) The DARAB found, among others, that the December 1999 Order of DAR Secretary Navarro, exempting the subject land from CARP coverage, became final and executory with the subsequent issuance of the October 15, 2001 Order of Finality rendered by DARAB Director Samson. [50] However, Adjudicator Salcedo's implementation of this Order should have adhered to the specific conditions outlined in the November 27, 2003 Order, devoid of a